I don't know if there is a plan to include this already, but a non-cap ship capable of acting as a jump inhibitor might be a good thing to help defend the solar gravity well. I say non-cap because it should be vulnerable for attacking fleets, just something to guarantee they don't jump in/out immediately.

I agree. I have to tediously deselect the non-military ships out.

Also a quick access to your cap ships would be nice.

Maybe even a sub governor AI to template a planet, less micromangent in a huge game.

Alert only for a HUGE fleet attack, not that annoying "Planet under Siege" when a small scout ship crosses your path by the AI.

Beta 3 is a multiplayer technical test and is not designed for gameplay

Well, I guess I should have read that.

Actually you can select individual pips but it is quite tedious and I always keep forgeting the buttom to sort more efficiently.

Its cause Kosc is more popular then you

Just because the game takes a couple of hours (on a small map) doesn't mean the game's meta-time is the same. You really think in a couple of hours your empire went from 1 planet to 10 or 20 or 30? My god those poor people must have whip-lash!

In-Game time is probablly 1 hour = 1 month perhaps week. But it is arbitrary at best.

This is what he means, and I think its a cool idea !

Somewhere in the Green zone, maybe it could be made random ? Or else at the edge...

In my opinion, the current planet upgrade, planet growth rate, and ship build rates are a little fast. Right now I do not see a NEED to purchase the corresponding techs to improve these factors as their rates are fairly comfortable as-is.

Lock the teams and it won't

some commments and ideas on the empire tree:

what I would really like to see is something, so that I dont have to hold crtl and select every single ship (class) separately, but rather along the lines of the windows explorer's shift function. click on the first item, hold shift, click on the last item, everything inbetween including the two items are now selected. that is particularly useful when you have a lot of ships of one type, say cobalts, and you dont want all of them attack one target but rather split them up.

next, I would acutally like the double click option whereby all units of the same type are selected. with the right options there are stacked slots in the empire tree, but I am just so used to this way and maybe some others are as well, so ...

imo the current layout indicating selected units is not really clear enough, it should less transparent.

also, if you select icon stack, it would be a nice option to unstack them just the way you can with planets and stars. that way you can keep an oversight, but if you want to, you can instantly take a closer look and give more precise orders if you so desire. speaking of icon stacking, is there a rule when a new stack begins? sometimes I (or other players) have a stack of 10 and another stack f 7, sometimes I think I saw one big stack for the same amount of units. its a bit confusing.

lastly, a tough one: I love to send my fleets and units around using said empire tree, but most of the time I have to resort to the graphical representation just because I cannot remember the names am not sure if I am sending them to the right arctic world or whatever. I first thought displaying somehow the structure and phase lines of planets to one another in the empire tree would help but that makes things probably just too complicated. now, another thought might be to indicate how many jumps the voyage would be from the current position of the ships when you have a ship selection and hover over a planet. with that extra information it should be clear most of the time.

Why can't it be double click?

Because that is our preferred means of focussing.